Japan lifts ban on U.S. wheat

Japan will resume purchasing U.S. white wheat, lifting a two-month ban on the grain.

Purchases of western-white wheat will resume on Aug. 1, and purchases of soft-white wheat for livestock feed will resume on Aug. 7, Bloomberg reports. The country plans to buy 89,579 metric tons of western-white wheat on Aug. 1, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.

Japan stopped buying U.S. wheat after an unapproved strain of Monsanto wheat was found in an Oregon field earlier this year.